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Systematic Theology by Louis Berkhof

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Hence we read in the Second Helvetic Confession: 'We acknowledge, therefore, that there be in one and the same Jesus our Lord two natures ' the divine and the human nature; and we say that these are so conjoined or united that they are not swallowed up, confounded, or mingled together, but rather united or joined together in one person (the properties of each being safe and remaining still), so that we do worship one Christ, our Lord, and not two. . . . Therefore we do not think nor teach that the divine nature in Christ did suffer, or that Christ, according to His human nature, is yet in the world, and so in every place.' [Chap. XI.]

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